Encyclopedia: Clematis

An interesting cultivar with large vivid bicolor flowers. Purple sepals with a bright reddish-mauve central bar and slightly wavy margins. White filaments with purple anthers. Excellent for arbors, trellises, poles and other garden supports. It can also be grown over natural supports such as coniferous or deciduous bushes and dwarf shrubs that don’t require hard pruning.

A Polish cultivar of charming, white, always semi-double flowers opening from June till August. Recommended for growing in domestic gardens and in large pots in balconies and terraces. WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE: Large flowers, 10–15 cm across, with 20–30 slightly wavy white sepals and staminodes and with stamens consisting of yellow anthers on white filaments. Pistils a...

A beautiful, early and profusely flowering variety. Violet-blue flowers with a contrasting sheaf of white stamens and staminodes in the center, followed, during summer and autumn, by decorative silky seed heads. A very hardy plant with low requirements. Ideal for growing over fences, walls, or scrambling over rocks and old stumps. Particularly useful for planting near s...

One of the earliest and most profusely flowering varieties – during April-June, with occasional flowers in summer. Charming, large, rich blue flowers with outer staminodes tinged blue and inner staminodes white are followed during summer and autumn by decorative silky seed heads. A very hardy plant with low requirements. Ideal for growing over fences, walls, or scrambli...

A Japanese variety with star-shaped flowers, 13-17 cm across, composed of 6-8 slightly wavy cream white tepals gradually turning purple-pink towards the tip. Purple-pink veining. Yellow anthers on light green filaments. Blooms in May – June and again in August. Reaches the height of 2,5 m. It attaches itself to a support with leaf tendrils. Useful for growing on ...

A Polish cultivar bearing interesting, gray-blue flowers with curvy edged tepals and cream stamens. Suitable for fences, walls, arbors, pergolas, trellises and poles. It can be grown over natural supports such as large bushy, deciduous or coniferous shrubs. Particularly useful for small gardens.

A charming Japanese cultivar bearing bright blue flowers with yellow stamens. Free-flowering in May-June, and again in August-September. Excellent for growing over fences, walls, arbors, pergolas, trellises and wooden supports. It can clamber over natural supports e.g. deciduous and coniferous bushes and dwarf shrubs.

A Japanese variety with flowers 15-18 cm in diameter, usually consisting of 8 sepals, creamy white in colour and oval in shape. Stamens have crimson anthers on creamy filaments. Flowers are borne in second half of May till June and reappear, although less profusely, in August-September. Reaches 2-2,5 m height. Attaches itself to the support by means of twining leaf peti...

One of the most popular varieties. Mid-blue flowers, reddish at the base of the sepals, are profusely borne from June to July. It was raised in Poland. Excellent for growing over fences, walls, arbors, pergolas, trellises and wooden supports, particularly out of full sun. It can clamber over natural supports e.g. deciduous and coniferous bushes and dwarf shrubs. Suitabl...

A beautiful Polish cultivar bearing always semi-double and double, lime-yellow and bell-shaped flowers, smelling of grapefruit. It blooms most abundantly in May and then continues less profusely until August. In the garden, it can grow by different types of supports or can be intertwined with other deciduous and coniferous shrubs. WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE: Medium-sized flo...